Skitch Henderson Quotes

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

It's so funny to think that I used to be a model and here I am doing arbitrage, shipping and negotiating margins, the list is endless.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

I see myself in business. I'm good with numbers. It's just something that interests me.

I'm not into business at all.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

I have seen entrepreneurs ask for hundreds of millions of dollars on a concept and try to sell because of 'their passion' for an idea. If the idea is that good, why wouldn't I cut you out and hire someone who is just as passionate for much, much less?

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

I have always been a business person.

What you get out of an M.B.A. programme, no matter how much experience, is functional tools and understanding in disciplines: you'll understand economics, you'll understand marketing, finance, accounting. That, M.B.A. programmes do very well.

Well, I think that there's a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you're likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

I've always had an interest in business, and my interest in business has really expanded over the years.

Business is all about risk taking and managing uncertainties and turbulence.

I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

My original business model - I actually wrote this down - was 'interesting work for interesting people.'

Small businesses, you can give them capital, but what they often need as much is mentoring, advice and help with their business plan.

Bin Laden comes out of a business background - he studied public administration and economics at university, and he worked for his family company, which was obviously a rather successful enterprise.

How many times have you been out for a beer or dinner and people are coming up with business ideas? Everybody wants to think they've got that great business idea.

Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.

Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways. I had to meet a payroll every week, and we had to satisfy customers, and we had competitors that we had to compete with in order to have those customers come into our stores, and we had to compete with other employers for our employees.

Most people end up owning a business by accident. Therefore, they don't usually have a thought process and a strategic plan in place.

I founded Atari in my garage in Santa Clara while at Stanford. When I was in school, I took a lot of business classes. I was really fascinated by economics. You end up having to be a marketeer, finance maven and a little bit of a technologist in order to get a business going.

A businessman is a hybrid of a dancer and a calculator.